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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The
rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for
you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be
favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of
each.For further details visit the
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks
is Movies Adapted from Movies of a Different Language (eg French to English, English to Chinese)

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So this is challenging, most of the remakes I've seen are usually horror titles,. I'm to try my best to steer away from them with this week's picks

Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
I guess this is a cheat somewhat, since it's more of a new adaptation of a book rather than from a movie, but while I know there has been quite a number of non-English language remakes of English language movie, this is the only one which I've seen both the the English adaptations, and now the non-English one, so I just had to include it. This version transplants the story from 18th century France to 1930s Shanghai. While it is a pretty looking movie, the 30s costuming and sets are all very beautiful, I think it lacks tension and probably needs a better Valmont too because I can't help but compare it to the 1988 movie which had Malkovich as Valmont who, not like I've read the book, but seemed perfect as Valmont with his rakish charm and that voice.

The Lake House (2006)
The Korean movie was very popular when it was released but I still haven't had a chance to see it. Can't say I remember much of this remake either, which I haven't seen since 2006. What I do remember was Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves reuniting again on screen was made quite a big deal.

Passion (2012)I haven't seen the original, but this remake is so bad. Watching this reminded me of The Happening, the whole movie feels like a joke, like it can't possibly be real, did someone really pass this as an actual movie or are they pranking us. Everything in it is so awkward. The actors are just reading lines and everything just feels disconnected to everything else.

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The
rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for
you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be
favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of
each.For further details visit the
series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks
is Airplane Movies

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Well I hope you're not afraid of flying, because the flying is the least of your problems on these flights.

Red Eye (2005)
Nice little thriller. When I first saw this I had no idea what a "red eye flight" was. Is it an American term or a term only frequent flyers would be familiar with?

Con Air (1997)Yep it's a prison airplane, which sounds like a really bad idea and in this movie it really was. Nicholas Cage has been doing a lot of bad bad and bad cheesy movies lately but at least this one he was in, way back in 1997, was cheesy fun.

Non-Stop (2014)This movie feels very similar to Flightplan; both has someone working in the aircraft/airline industry getting used and made to look crazy as part of a sinister plot for money. But I prefer Non-Stop because it's a better mystery and more action packed.

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The
rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for
you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be
favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of
each.For further details visit the
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks
is Post-Apocalyptic World (Not Apocalyptic)

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Hey, so if you haven't heard, Netflix just when global last week. Finally it arrived here after years of waiting! So I have been binge watching shows like The 100 which is, as you might know, is set in a post-apocalyptic world, which brings to today's theme; here are my post-apocalyptic movie picks.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
I always get confused which is the first and which is the sequel. Both "Dawn" and "Rise" sounds like a first-movie sort of title. So this one explores the world after the disease outbreak the devastated the human population while the apes have thrived. Basically it looks like the beginning of the end for the humans.

I Am Legend (2007)Once again a plague has killed everyone except seemingly one man and he wanders the streets with his dogto find other survivors and work on a cure. So the movie takes a different approach to the "legend" aspect of the story. I prefer the book "legend" which ismore depressing.

The Divide (2011)A handful of people survive a nuclear blast by seeking refuge in a bomb shelter under their apartment. Personality clashes, fights over resources and distrustresult in some terrible things happening. Just very bleak and depressing.

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The
rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for
you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be
favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of
each.For further details visit the
series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks
is Downstairs people (in reference to Downton Abbey/Upstairs Downstairs - movies about live in domestic workers).

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I almost posted this late today. I thought it was still Wednesday. Where does time go?

The Remains of the Day (1993)

This
will, I think, be a popular pick today. I feel like I should give this
movie another watch. This is supposedly one of, if not, the best Merchant
Ivory movies and I found it dull the first time around. I found Gosford
Park dull the first time around too and now it's one of my favourites.

Gosford Park (2001) I love this movie! Smart manor murder mystery that delves into the lives of both the upstairs and downstairs people.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)The movie based on a book by the same name envisions the girl in Girl with a Pearl Earring as a maid in Vermeer's house. I suppose a movie that features an artist has to be beautiful and this one was. Things look like they came out of a still life painting.

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